God is Big

Back in August, I made a decision to dedicate my time this year to prayer and fasting, once a week. I have grown up as a Christian and one of the biggest things I have always struggled with is trusting God and believing that He can still move and work in big ways. My faith had been confined to my needs and my worries, and while I was aware of God's work on a larger scale, I didn't always believe it affected me. So I began to pray weekly and fasted each Tuesday, praying that God would allow my faith to grow stronger and that He would let me see him do work in a real, tangible way. Nothing happened for the first three months, but I continued to pray.

And then God started happening in big ways.

Over fall break, the first weekend in Novemeber, I was sitting in my parents church in Atlanta when God gave me a vision of a mass of students, all gathered together on Bowman Field to worship Him and pray for our campus. Behind the students was a huge tidal wave that was just perched, ready to come crashing down. When I got back to Clemson, I shared the vision with a friend of mine. She absolutely flipped out and encouraged me to come to her house church to share it with others. Now I have to preface that I was raised in a church setting where sermons were not regularly preached on dreams and visions and spirit-moving actions. We were commonly referred to as the "frozen chosen"… And I was slightly scared/skeptical/confused on what exactly was happening.

But God took those fears away after I shared this vision with the house church. I wasn't sure what sort of response I was going to get, but lets just say the roof almost erupted off. I quickly found out that God had given this same vision to others, and they had been praying for months that God would give them a way to make this dream real and actually happen.

And that is just the beginning. God has put a revival spirit in the hearts of so many of His children at Clemson that it is unreal. If you have been coming to DCF this past semester, you've probably partaken in one of the multiple prayer times we've had where hearts have been crying out for our community and that the lost would find the love of Christ. Students across campus ministries and organizations and churches are coming together to pray and to worship and to share the gospel. Uniting as nothing but Christians, there is a movement of believers that are not being hindered by any sort of labels or fears and are proclaiming the Gospel in front of their classes and in 200 person lectures and in the dining halls and all over campus. There are efforts being made right now for a large gathering of Christians to happen on Bowman to pray for our campus and another event in Little John to have a massive gospel presentation happen for all who want to hear. People are physically being healed and hearts are being softened left and right.

I don't know about you, but that is not the sort of Christianity that I am used to seeing. This movement that the Holy Spirit is flowing through is not at all what I had in mind when I started praying 3 months ago. But who says God has to answer our prayers in a small manner? The small growth I figured would happen has been blown out of the water by what God is teaching me and through what my own eyes have been a witness to.

He is alive and is proving His power to me and to this campus and to the world. There is a new revival happening and it is an unexpected, but welcome, answer to my prayer.